The Dillon tribune., 1887-05-27
= ri.l.rl.TT'.Al. DAYLIGHT,

= riEll!T..!. DArilGHT
Nov let lis suppose j" world revolving
;ro''ih Il :;&r :,it;;;;t";l II ,nn center II; ,hc
c!iISfr". i h'sts,nintg t.tat tho ;,!rr1;;roiiu,.
stars are arranged il. = pretty Summarized
way. there would be q dozen Of ,;,c,,,
within distance OF 5000, nt?3, 600 miles,
;.ild each rT these wC,,ld. cs seen fy3r, t,.,.
worla ut the center. appear / 400 times;
brighter than Sirius appears to rs. The. ~.
would Lc upward Of fifty stars twice ms
lar away, eacl, Of which wou;,: be $50
t!s'cs rs bright as Sir,:s. THUS the stars
VI ire cluster. Ms seen from tho center
would 80 Cn increasing in number and IL;
minishinS in brightness but rs The total
number i3 limited to 1000 9, Ij 600. the
outerinoSt .u! aln "tars would hc approxin,atelv
l3o, ,oOo, Ooo, 900 miles; away. and each
would shine six times as bright as Sirius.
II IS apparent THAI there would be n
sor. OF perpetual daylight ut the center Of
such congregation Of suns. Let us see
"oout now bright this hght would b.. or
course cur supposititious planet might re-
@ ce.ve 1rom the sun 10 which it belonged as
olA,un1 u daylight us orr sun gives to
u.s. btlt what would be the illumination ~
Its nights, or, in other words. of tbat SID,
OF u which was turned away from ito
sun! ZOllner has estimated tho livht ~
the sun to bo 0lS, GOO times AZ u,.ent =.
that of the full moon This, upon III" esti,
mate 0f the amount IT Siri,,s' licht N.
compared with the SUMS that we have
adopted. would give the moon about = 1l0n
"'hes AZ much light as Sirius,
EQUAL To FIFTEEN MOONS.
since cnch of the stars in the ,.lns,er
nns f NM MN NJ" ain'Ss INC light of Sirius. ut O..
vV'"W'VOU miles distance. and there ure a
uo1esi OF them within that distance OF tho
osn.e.' '.,,,' u toil"ws that these dozen stars
WI sue" "nove twice as much light upon
",,w m's'" I" the center ot tho cluster as tho
,' ,",' 'h'"i' sends To us. And since tho
n s., ~, leeelveo lrom a body varies invcrscly
~, ',o Sla"fc or 'ts distance, while the
.<'....,', t u. such bodies arranged in the
roughly spherical way we have snrn,s,s,
would inc rcGso directly ;is the s,,,,rro .sf
their distance from the ,.,,tr- II 10 ,.. ~
'"at inc amount of light received from th.,
whole cluster would TX, AS MANY ,imn. th.,
amount received from the twelve s+ors,
nearest the center, AS the ratlins ~ tho
cluster exceeds 5000, OOO, COO miles. .ch;s
"onI' 'e about fifteen times. and ~, ,hn
ao'a' amount OF light shed uupn the
.S",er would he fifteen times the nmo,,nt
"!ee. from tho first twelve stars. or nl.n,t
thirty times the amount that the All
moon r'''rs upon the earth. INT ou,v
hElt the stars of the cluster womld ~.
above the horizon ut once, and so the lin.
.nlnal'oi' OF the night sky on our imnr;n.
aty world would Ike fifteen times ns hr;rh,
"sr.h a. inc light Of the full moon upon The
,,,a ine number OF stars visible to ns with
."o o,"o. u'"e1 :, o.M eye on IL clear night is not
.rs =" % t";',. a,Ma .ne great majority Of these
ton to be seen at ali. How contar,,'t;ts,a ~'
men Is the starry armament presrnt"1 ~
~ III comparison with the clor;ons
heavens IN this sun cluster Of Her.,',"a
WI. where more than twice rs n,any stars -,
W. We can SEQ blaze nightly with q -aI;nn"o
80. 80 brilliant that the faintcst OF them oro
s,A times rs bright as the greatest star -,
our sky.-New York Sun, ''"' III